Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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A little man often cast a long shadow.
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